planets, considering that several are younger than Earth, or possibly some of the actual stars or suns of other systems. “Then commenced another epoch in Earth-history, and one, if anything, even more wonderful than those previous. For ages there had been light, but only the light which every world gives out from itself, as in the case of certain stars which are not suns and on which no sun ever shines, yet which are seen shining by their own light and lighting other worlds, as they do Earth to a great extent, quite apart from the light of our sun and moons, as I have already explained in detail. But the rays of the newly created sun warmed and penetrated the sombre haze which had hitherto surrounded the Earth, till at last all opposition was destroyed and the vivifying rays and heat reached the ground, warming land, water and air, and causing more violent circulation of the atmosphere, and making certain portions of varying temperature. The winds, therefore, became fresher and stronger, and the sun ever after became the visible and physical ruler of Earth and all the other planets which were, or had been, drawn within his force of energy. “This is, of course, taking my belief that the sun was made _after_ the Earth, which belief I base on excellent and irrefutable grounds, though it is contrary to the opinion held by many great scientists, as I before remarked. You will see how strong is the basis of my theory from the fact that the Earth is proved to be certainly not less than one hundred and thirty million years old by the fossils on it, its structure, and the progress of its life, and even the greatest estimation of the age of the sun, as a sun, is that it _cannot_ be more than fifteen and a half million years. How is it possible, then, for the Earth to have come from the sun’s mass, either in the solid or in any other form? “Then followed the creative word—‘Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven,’ and the Reptile Age was formed, when sea-animals, reptiles and winged saurians existed.